Panera Bread @ Yonge and Dundas

March 30, 2018

Birthday freebie! One baked good - pecan bun

August 1, 2014

Since joining the Panera Club, I've been getting some promotions. One of them was $2 off a flatbread, so I decided to grab one on my way home:

  Mediterranean Chicken Flatbread

 
I think this is the saddest flatbread I've ever seen and I can't believe it retails for $5.
I wouldn't ever pay regular price for this! There was no way it was a meal - this was barely a snack!
There was barely any chicken and it was just thrown together haphazardly;  if you're in the Yonge & Dundas area - be sure to check out the other options before coming to Panera for the flatbread.

Overall: Things I would order again are the paninis, pastries and salads. The rest of the items just weren't good. 

June 6, 2014

Panera Bread ran a free You Pick Two promotion in the Metro Newspaper for a few weeks. 

So I decided to try out as many freebie options together that I could! 

The first time I went, they ran out of a lot of food (since too many people were grabbing the free You Pick Two at lunch). So, I grabbed:

French Onion soup and 1/2 Asiago Steak Sandwich with Kettle cooked potato chips

The soup was really salty without the croutons and the cheese, but it was even saltier with them. The Asiago cheese foccacia was really doughy and lumpy, with some weird cheddar cheese and strips of rare seared steak. Not particularly appetizing, but it's free I guess. However, it would not be something I would come back and pay for. 

1/2 Asiago steak on Ciabatta, Cream of Broccoli soup and an apple. 

The cream of broccoli was much better than the French onion soup and I think the ciabatta was a better choice of bread. 

1/2 Roasted Turkey and Avocado BLT and Chicken Tortellini Alfredo

The BLT was okay - at least there was quite a bit of avocado. The tortellini was kind of sad with 4 chicken strips on top of the cheesy and saucy pasta. The alfredo sauce was salty and pretty strong.  I think if you're going to try any pastas - the one I would get again is the pesto sacchettini because it had a great pesto flavour and the sacchettini was really cute and delicious. 

Side view

1/2 Chipotle Chicken Panini

Chicken, bacon, melted cheddar, tomato and a hint of the chipotle sauce. It was actually a pretty good sandwich. I think I'd rather order paninis again than the sandwiches. 

Thai Chicken Salad with Asian Sesame dressing (since they ran out of the Thai dressing)

Really interesting with romaine lettuce, Thai cashews, edamame, red peppers, carrots, cilantro and wonton strips. I actually really liked the salad - it was a good mix of the ingredients and they worked well together, I would probably order more of their salads in the future. This salad probably would have been better with Thai dressing, but the Asian Sesame was okay too. 

Cobblestone pastry

It was huge and it looked so interesting, I couldn't resist trying it out. 

Cinnamon Raisin swirl bread dough with apple spice filling and topped with streusel and white icing. 

Very different from a normal pastry - I loved the cinnamon, apple spice filling and the white icing, but I could have done without the raisins.

Website: https://www.panerabread.com/en-us/home.html

Grimaldi's Pizzeria - Las Vegas

After lunch, we were on our way back to Vegas to catch our flight leaving at midnight. 

 

Yant Flats - Candy Cliffs

Goodbye Utah! 

Hello bright lights of Vegas!

I've eaten at Grimaldi's in NYC before. Grimaldi's birthday promotion is a free pizza with one topping!

Pesto pizza with chicken

Decent pesto pizza, I liked that the chicken was grilled.

Website: https://www.grimaldispizzeria.com/

Oscar's Cafe - Springdale

Views from the top of Angel's Landing at Zion National Park

  

I still can't believe we made it - it was one scary journey. 

 

  

Shrimp Tacos

Grilled Chicken Salad

Chimichanga

I get chimichangas in the US a lot since it's not something you can easily get in Canada (not a lot of Mexican restaurants in Toronto and I haven't seen fried chimichangas on many menus). 

The food was pretty good! We met a family of hikers on our way down from Angel's Landing and ended up meeting them again at Oscar's Cafe! Clearly a popular spot here!

Website: https://oscarscafe.com/

Breakfast @ Rodeway Inn - Kanab

Free breakfast before our tough day hiking at Zion National Park

Waffles & Toast - carb heavy breakfast for hiking!

Ready for this:  

(Just kidding)

Website: https://utah.com/rodeway-inn-kanab

Nedra's Too - Kanab

We failed the Wave lottery on our second try too. 😞 

Bryce Canyon National Park 

Hoodoos are amazing up close

Then later in the day, we went to the Coyote Buttes area: 

Wire Pass Trail to Buckskin Gulch (the closest we could get to The Wave without a permit and a 4x4 car)

 

Navajo Taco 

Indian fry bread with chili and lettuce, tomato and cheese

Burger and Fries

I thought the Navajo Taco was a local specialty or something, but it wasn't very good - the burger was better. 

El Tapatio - Page

March 24, 2018

Horseshoe Bend

 

 Lower Antelope Canyon

Grand Canyon

Who would've thought that I'd be back here 1 year later?

Mexican Food!

Nachos and salsa

Chimichanga and enchilada and flauta with enchilada

As good as I remember - super glad we came here to satisfy our Mexican food craving.  

April 26, 2017

Antelope Canyon was our next stop!

We went to grab lunch right across from our tour company.

 

So many delicious options! 

Complimentary nachos and salsa while we make our decisions

Enchilada Rancheras

Red sauce and eggs on top - that was different. 

Chimichangas de Mole

Tapatio Mediano with beef taco and chicken chimichanga

The tapatio chimichanga was smaller than the chimichanga meal, but it was still really tasty with the deep fried tortilla. The taco was okay - the shell was thin and crispy and the beef was good. There was a lot of refried beans and rice. The rice was really dry and the beans were runny.

Website: http://tapatiorestaurants.com/menu/